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| Title | Opportunities and challenges of community-based rural drinking water supplies |
| Subtitle | An analysis of water and sanitation committees in Ghana |
| Author |
Sun, Yan Asante, Felix Ankomah Birner, Regina |
| Year | 2010 |
| Abstract | Providing safe drinking water in rural areas is a major challenge because it is not easy to establish institutional arrangements that will ensure that drinking water facilities are provided, maintained, and managed in an efficient, equitable, and sustainable way. Like many other countries, Ghana has adopted a community-based approach to meet this challenge. Community-based water and sanitation committees (WATSANs) are in charge of managing drinking water facilities at the local level. They are supported by water and sanitation teams of each district administration and by the Community Water and Sanitation Agency, an independent agency that has been created to facilitate the community-based approach. This paper is based on the analysis of two survey datasets of WATSANs and households in rural Ghana. The paper confirms some findings of the earlier literature on this topic. For example, communities that have a higher level of existing community groups are more likely to have functioning WATSANs, while ethnically diverse communities are less likely to have these organizations. The paper also indicates that WATSANs have a positive effect on the mobilization of payment for water services. Using empirical data on local leaders, the paper shows that leadership also matters for the provision of safe drinking water. In particular, the paper suggests that female leaders seem to be effective in this respect. |
| Series Name | IFPRI Discussion Paper |
| Series Number | 1026 |
| Publisher | International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) |
| Place of publication | Washington, D.C. |
| Language | English |
| Record Type | Discussion paper |
| Peer Reviewed - PR or Non-PR | Non-PR |
| Subject - country location |
GHANA WEST AFRICA AFRICA SOUTH OF SAHARA AFRICA |
| Subject - keywords |
Community-based resource management Decentralization drinking water Participation Sustainable development water use |
| JEL Descriptors |
Q25 Renewable Resources and Conservation: Water O13 Economic Development: Agriculture, Natural Resources, Energy, Environment, Other Primary Products H54 National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: Infrastructures, Other Public Investment |
| IFPRI Descriptors |
IFPRI1 GRP22 |
| IFPRI Division | EPTD |
| Access Rights | Open Access |
| Display Notes | Effective January 2007, the Discussion Paper series within each division and the Director General�s Office of IFPRI were merged into one IFPRI�wide Discussion Paper series. The new series begins with number 00689, reflecting the prior publication of 688 discussion papers within the dispersed series. The earlier series are available on IFPRI�s website at http://www.ifpri.org/publications/results/taxonomy%3A468. IFPRI Discussion Papers contain preliminary material and research results. They have not been subject to formal external reviews managed by IFPRI�s Publications Review Committee but have been reviewed by at least one internal and/or external reviewer. They are circulated in order to stimulate discussion and critical comment. |
| LOC call number | IFPRIDP01026 |
| Physical description | 28 pages |
| Times cited-- Google Scholar | http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=4488304471741986579&as_sdt=20005&sciodt=0,9&hl=en |
| RePEc Downloads | https://ideas.repec.org/p/fpr/ifprid/1026.html |
| Requests | mailto:ifpri-library@cgiar.org |
| CONTENTdm file name | 4238.cpd |
| Date cataloged | 2017-08-03 |
| Date modified | 2017-08-03 |
| OCLC number | 861347822 |
| CONTENTdm number | 4237 |
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| Title | ifpridp01026 24 |
| Access Rights | Open Access |
| CONTENTdm file name | 4221.pdfpage |
| Date cataloged | 2017-08-03 |
| Date modified | 2017-08-03 |
| CONTENTdm number | 4220 |
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